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Enough said! Thanks Bowie will unbolt the T.C first. Cheers.

Hi, My 3.9 is ready to be taken out and put in the bin just want to make sure I do it without damaging the oil pump on the auto box. The front grill and wings are off so the engine can move directly forward, would this be ok or do I need to unbolt the T.con before I undo the bell housing bolts and take the engine off??? Thanks.

Sounds a little advanced for Rover Hot Wire!!!!! Im very impressed!!!

I have done it. I allready had a v8 and rangie axles so im not sure if any other series stuff will clash but I had to cut out the front X memeber remove all the series stearing box and replace the steering coloum with a rangie one. As for the pump I drilled and tapped a few holes in the block and made a bracket to take the pump. Mounting the box wasnt too difficult but as someone else has said it does take alot of work with the gas axe and welder!

cheers for the help guys but im gonna go for the haltech as its all sitting there looking at me! Done a bit of learning and it doesnt seem too hard.

ok cheers started to put in today. thanks.

My front axle on me hybrid is busted and have another doner axle waiting to go in but want to know its the same. I know my old one is 10 spline or old rangie and this doner one is off a H reg 3.9. Have noticed that the hubs allready have a cir-clip holding stuff on under a rubber cap. Is this a 24 slpine? If so are the 10 and 24's have different ratios? Thanks.

so does the volvo stepper work in the same way as the hotwire one? just need give it air in and out??? (obviously fab up a bracket or two) any one got pics of this??? Also the trigger wheel I have is 60 something teeth will MS regoginse this?

ok getting blured vision!!!!! 1) where do I buy one? 2) did you buy all the lamba and air temp sensors seperate or do they do a complete kit? I saw you used ford coil packs. 3) you have done this on a flapper system and say the stepper motor wont work on MS1 is this the same for hotwire? the motors look the same in the pics but cant see where you have put the new volvo stepper. 4) sorry if you have allready answered this in the post but didnt see! 5) I want one. Now.

kicking back commencing.......

ok will kick back with a beer tomorrow and get reading!!! thanks nige.

Hello all, I have in my posession a hal-tech loom and ECU and am thinking about using it on my 3.9 all though Im not sure if im taking a harder and more expensive route. When I changed over to auto I put in a trigger wheel which is fixed onto the flex plate and a crank sensor mounted onto the bell housing. I know how I would go about using the hal-tech (just like emerald ect.) but understand I would need the system mapped after with a rolling road would this be the same situation with a megasquirt package? I have read "white 90's" blog in the techincal archive and has got me wondering about MS. It seems the system most use on a land rover V8. Is the MS more of a plug and play? I believe that bewteen me and friends that we have enough knowlage to put a new loom in no problem. Also what are coil packs and the whole MS syslem like with water??? I know its a subject covered thousands of times with lots of archives about it but just dont know where to start! Thanks.

ahh thanks for the reminder, KORC just seeyour post!!! will watch that post, thanks.

Finally after many years of building my land rover is ready to play with but dont know where to go! does any one know of stuff going on in kent/greater london area? Fancy doing trialing but anything will do, just dont have a winch thats all. Thanks.

We use brake cleaner all the time, especially for alu, its the best for removing grease. The bit I dont understand is that the smallest piece of heat and the BC evaporates off in a split second or goes bang! So I blow off with an airline before welding up. We use Wurth brake cleaner.

I remember wanting to know the size of that thread for some reason, cant remeber why, was on the inlet manifold. IRRC was 14 TPI witch i think is NPT

Looking at that I would spend my money on a half decent second hand myford lathe or somthing similar seeing as that mill couldnt machine a lump out of a digestive biscuit. What sort of things are you wanting to use a mill for as a small mill is very limited.

so is the warning light working or not cos you said you tested that and the sender and you said both were ok? If you intend to buy a gauge then just get one now, not hard to fit and will give you an answer. Make sure the one you get comes all the gubbins you need whick will be the gauge, length of copper microbore and a T piece. The T piece goes in where the sender is and the sender goes back in on the other side of the T. All very easy it all screws together. I got TIM gauges from deamon freaks.

going by the manual it says to get it up to running temp.

ok will order up a filter tomorrow and let you know what happens. Thanks.

humm that was my first port of call and upon lookin the filter had lots of small bits in it but not what i would call "blocked"

yep ran it up to temp flicked trough all the gears pausing at each one then checkin the level in neutral.

same as the others works fine then dead after a minute of running.

Go the auto in my hybrid and all running after the recent oil pump breakage, so yeterday i was most pleased when a little test drive worked sweet with all the gears and kickdown working fine. untill i acctually wanted to used if today and i got to the end of the road and lost all drive. the only symptom i can give is that if you switch off for 5-10mins then you will get drive in all gears ok but can only drive for about 100m then all the drive has gone again. any ideas? whats the symptons of a broken torque converter? thanks in advance!

I have painted a few bit on me S3. Bought the paint from paddocks (they got all land rover colours) rub the pannel down wit a scotch brite and get out a brush. I was most supprised with the finish seeing as I guessed the amount of thinners to paint ratio and didnt leave the shine in the tin!